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shplane@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The US south treated their slaves well. Even in high school, I was like “mmmm you suuuure about that?”
I have been reading through this book on the matter: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist goodreads.com/…/14894629-the-half-has-never-been-…
The descriptions of violence toward slaves is heavily discussed and is quite eye-opening to me, since this is not the version I was taught in school!
In the era, “spare the rod, spoil the child” was considered good advice. If that’s how even loved ones were treated … slaves treated well? Press X to doubt.
Yeah, think about how many men already get drunk and beat the shit out of their wives. The person they supposedly love the most.
Now imagine if they had a slave to take it out on instead.
There’s actually a lot of scholarship about how Southern plantation owners developed their child rearing philosophy on a misunderstanding of the Roman patriarchy combined with their newfangled “scientific racism,” conflating the discipline expected for both children and slaves.
All embedded in the modern slang ‘boy’.
I was fed the line that NORTHERNERS treated their slaves well.
nuggie_ss@lemmings.world 5 months ago
Compared to how other slaves were treated around the world, this is relatively true.